Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

🔴 🎥 **Which Experts should we trust?**

"_Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him: the bombastic know-it-alls, the bashful youths, the confident generals, those (including the enslaved) with unsuspected mathematical competence, the workaday artisans. Aristotle later explored the ways in which expert claims can be made credible to popular judgement._"

#Video length: one minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3exXRz7GH4

#Politics #Shorts #Socrates #Aristotle

🔴 📖 **Two centuries ago, only 1 in 10 adults could read. Today, it’s almost 9 in 10**

"_That means more than 5 billion people can read and write today, compared to fewer than 100 million two centuries ago._"

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/two-centuries-ago-only-1-in-10-adults-could-read-today-its-almost-9-in-10

#Data #DataViz #Education #Literacy #Read #Reading #Write #Writing

🔴 📖 **‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!**

"_LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now!_"

https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024/07/29/the-edge-of-sentience-now-available-online/

#OpenAccess #Online #OA #Philosophy #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon (88)

🔴 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🎥 **Did A German General 'Save' Paris? The True Story of the 1944 Liberation**

"_What is the true story of the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Did a German general really save the city from destruction that was ordered by Hitler? In this video, we try and separate truth from historical fiction._"

#Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty two seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqVkVK9C7Y

#WW2 #WWII #Paris #France #Germany #Europe #History #Histodon #HIstodons @histodon @histodons

@geerlingguy Ditto.

🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 **"Norway" 1950 Scandinavia People & Industry Travelogue Film Oslo, Bergen**

"_Dudley Pictures Corporation presents, “This World of Ours: Norway” (1950) which is a black-and-white made for television short travelog film about the country of Norway. Captured by cinematographer Edwin E. Olsen, the film features footage of Norway’s rugged beauty from the fjords to valleys as well as scenes from the bustling cities of Oslo and Bergen._"

#Video length: nine minutes and three seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTs4h5DTso

#Europe #Scandinavia #Nordic #Norway #Oslo #Bergen #Travel #Travelogue #Travelog #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons

🔴 🎥 **The Full History Of How The Vikings Dominated Europe ¦ The Last Journey Of The Vikings ¦ Timeline**

"_Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people._"

#Video length: three hours and thirteen minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3I-f7npAA

#Viking #Vikings #Europe #Scandinavia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Timeline #Documentary @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Analyses of Johannes Kepler's Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A Revised Scenario for the Solar Cycles in the Early 17th Century**

"_Here, we make use of Kepler's sunspot drawings and descriptive texts to identify his observational sites and time stamps. We have deprojected his sunspot drawings and compared the reported positions with our calculations of the inclination of the solar equator as seen from these sites at that time._"

Hayakawa, H. et al. (2024) 'Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A revised scenario for the solar cycles in the early 17th century,' The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), p. L31. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad57c9.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Astronomy #Sun #History #HistSci #Kepler #C17th #17thcentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @astronomy

@fsinn I wonder how many of the sixty percent will actually vote?

🔴 **What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition**

"_Currently, all English dictionaries define nature as an entity separate from and opposed to humans and human creations – a perspective campaigners say perpetuates humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world._"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/27/campaign-include-humanity-dictionary-definition-nature

#Language #Lexicon #Dictionary #Biodiversity #Philosophy @philosophy

🔴 🎥 **"The Book" 1950's Bookmaking, Printing And Publishing. Educational Film**

"_The film portrays an author, who narrates the film, explaining the research of writing a book, and the process and responsibilities of publishing a book._"

#Video length: seventeen minutes and forty one seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHDOrgZiBE

#History #Film #Writing #Publishing #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Education @bookstodon

A case of do as I say, not as I do?

@dogfox @kta @religion @philosophy @christianity

@AnnaAnthro Hubris never ends well.